Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan will push for "close engagement" with EU says President Almazbek Atambayev
Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev has been on an extended tour of Europe meeting major European Union leaders. He plans to go to Moscow soon to
US returns Manas Airbase to Kyrgyzstan
In another step in the exit from Afghanistan, the US has handed back its only Central Asian airbase to the government of Kyrgyzstan. The Manas
Mass wedding in Kyrgyzstan
Fifty couples took part in a colourful mass wedding ceremony in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek. The couples were selected by the Kyrgyz Ministry of
Kyrgystan to close Manas air transport base
Kyrgyzstan has reaffirmed plans to close the US air base that supports military operations in nearby Afghanistan. The United States pays 46 million
Kyrgyz police clash with anti-government protesters
There have been violent protests in Kyrgyzstan over the government’s refusal to nationalise a gold-mining venture with a Canadian company. Police
Kyrgyz inmates sew lips together in prison protest
More than 1,300 prisoners are said to have sewn their lips together with nearly 7,000 on hunger strike. Shock images of the protest have come from
Kyrgyz PM out in front in presidential ballot
The party of Kyrgyzstan’s Moscow-backed prime minister claim he has won the country’s presidential election. Almazbek Atambayev had been a
Kyrgyzstan votes for a new president
Kyrgyzstan is going to the polls to vote for a new president. The election is the result of reforms put in place after a bloody uprising toppled
Dozens clamour to be Kyrgyzstan's leader
Politics are popular in Kyrgyzstan where 83 people have tried to register to run for president. Election officials now have to see who of those
Producing Kumis in the Kyrgyzstan's mountain region
For people living in the remote valleys of Kyrgyzstan’s mountain region, producing the traditional drink of fermented mare’s milk, ‘Kumis’, is often
Kyrgyzstan: Revolution politics
Kyrgyzstan President Roza Otunbayeva has played a key role in two revolutions. The first was ridding the country of its then leader, President
Kyrgyzstan back on the road to democracy
Kyrgyzstan has a new democratically elected parliament after Sunday’s landmark election. It brings an end to the autocratic rule which has
Kyrgyzstan set to elect a coalition
Kyrgyzstan looks set to produce a coalition government despite nationalists narrowly coming out ahead of four other parties in Sunday’s
Kyrgyzstan elects newly-empowered parliament
Voting has ended in Kyrgyzstan in elections designed to create Central Asia’s first parliamentary democracy. Until April the country was, like its
Kyrgyzstan elects its newly empowered parliament
Kyrgyzstan is holding elections today aimed at creating Central Asia’s only parliamentary democracy. But deep political and ethnic divisions remain
Historic vote in troubled Kysgyzstan
Security is tight in Kyrgyzstan today as the country votes in an election that interim leaders hope will unite the country – but opponents fear could
Tension as Kyrgyzstan prepares to vote
Kyrgyzstan goes to the polls on Sunday in elections that many hope will transform the country into the most stable parliamentary democracy in
Historic election in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan goes to the polls this Sunday in an election that will create Central Asia’s first parliamentary democracy. An interim government has
Kyrgyzstan tense ahead of election
Kyrgyzstan holds an election on Sunday that its leaders hope will unite the country – but which opponents fear could trigger violence and more
Osh protesters defy Kyrgyzstan government
There have been more signs of dissent in Kyrgyzstan’s troubled south, against the former Soviet Republic’s interim government. “We want our mayor